| Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820a 1980 Contributor(s): Benton, Gregor (Author), Liu, Hong (Author), Wang, Gungwu (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0520298438 ISBN-13: 9780520298439 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Finance - General - History | Asia - China |
| Dewey: 332.042 |
| LCCN: 2018000553 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Qiaopi is one of several names given to the "silver letters" Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times. Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of qiaopi, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions' socioeconomic development. Dear China contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration. |